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Wisconsin Historical 

Museum 




WI§CONSIN;\^ISTORICAL SOCIETY 



Handbook No. 6 
Second Edition, December, 1915 



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Teachers' Guide 



Personages of National, Foreign, 
and Local Prominence Repre- 
sented by Specimens in the 
Museum of the State 
Historical Society 

This guide to certain articles of special 
historical interest on exhibition in the 
Museum is intended to assist teachers, 
school children, women's study clubs, 
and other visitors to its halls, to a 
knowledge of some of the contents of its 
collections and their availability for 
study purposes. 

The specimens herein listed are se- 
lected from among many thousands 
acquired by the Society during the past 
fifty years of the Museum's existence. 
The entries are in alphabetical order, 
the names of the historical personages 

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who are represented by specimens in the 
Museum being arranged as a matter of 
convenience under two divisions. 

Abbreviations in italics indicate the 
hall or room in which each specimen is 
at present located: S. H., South Hall; 
E. H., East Hall; M. H. R., Military 
History Room; /. H. R., Indian History 
Room; A^. H., North Hall; A. R„ 
Adams .Room, and /. R., In Reserve. 
P. indicates that a portrait of the 
person named can be found in the 
Museum. 

It is desired that the relatives of other 
men and women who have taken a prom- 
inent part in the State or the nation's 
history, place in the care of the Museum 
any valuable or interesting articles 
which they now possess. These will in 
this manner be properly safeguarded 
against loss by fire, theft, or other 
causes, and become available to all 
Wisconsin citizens. Communications 
may be addressed to The State His- 
torical Library, Madison, Wisconsin. 



Wisconsin Celebrities 

Emma Abbott. School excuse written 
by the noted opera singer at Oak Creek, 
Wisconsin, July 26, 1871. Plate which 
belonged to her grandmother, Mrs. 
Palmer. Silk program, Deakin's Academy 
of Music, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, special 
engagement of the Emma Abbott Opera 
Company, Dec. 5, 1884, in the Bohe- 
mian Girl— A\ //., E. H. 

"Old Abe." Feathers of this famous 
eagle, mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin 
Volunteer Regiment during the Civil 
War. Picture sold at the great Sanitary 
Fair in Chicago, May 30, 1865.— M. H. R. 

John Francis Appleby. Twine- 
knotting hook invented by him in 1858, 
on a farm in Walworth County. Twine 
binders were manufactured by him and 
his associates, Charles H. Parker and 
Gustavus Stone, at Beloit, in the summer 
of 1878. In that year 115 Appleby bind- 
ers were sold and successfully operated 
in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Minne- 
sota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. — S. H. 

Charles C. P. Arndt. Vest worn by 
him as a member of the legislative coun- 
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cil of Wisconsin Territory when he was 
shot and killed by James R. Vineyard in 
the council chamber at Madison, in 
1842. Vineyard was expelled from the 
council but was acquitted of man- 
slaughter, Charles Dickens, the novelist, 
tells the story of the shooting in his 
American Notes. — E. H. 

Rev. Johannes Bading. Songbook 
used by him when pastor of St. Jacob's 
Lutheran church at Theresa, Dodge 
County, 1854-60. Mr. Bading came to 
Wisconsin from Rixdorf, near Berlin, 
Germany, in 1853, his first church being 
in Calumet Township, Calumet County. 
His next pastorate was at Theresa, after 
which he was in charge of St. Mark's 
church at Watertown, 1860-68. In 
1863 he went to Europe for the purpose 
of collecting funds for a Lutheran college 
at Watertown. In the course of his trip 
he visited the royal courts of Prussia, 
Hanover, and Russia, and returned to 
the United States in 1864 with $15,000. 
Northwestern University, Watertown, 
was built in 1865, and he served as its 
president from that year till 1909. — E. H. 
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LiEUT.-CoL. Joseph Bailey. Punch 
bowl and sword presented to this officer 
of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry by 
Rear-Admiral Porter and staff for saving 
the Union fleet of gunboats from capture 
by the Confederates during the Red 
River expedition, in Arkansas, May, 
1864. The fleet was prevented from 
descending the river by a low stage of 
water and was threatened with destruc- 
tion by the enemy on the banks. 
Bailey, who was serving on General 
Franklin's staff as chief engineer, devised 
and constructed a system of dams which 
raised the water to a sufficient height; 
and then, an opening being suddenly 
made, the vessels escaped through the 
chute. For this feat Bailey was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general, Nov. 10, 1864. 
— M. H. R. 

Dr. John Bascom. Inkwell, gold 
pen, sermon-book, and silver napkin 
ring of this president of the University 
of Wisconsin, 1874-87.— £. H. 

Alvan E. Bovay. Carpet bag in 
which the "founder of the Republican 
party" carried his papers to a meeting 
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held at Ripon on Feb. 28, 1854, at which 
he suggested the name "RepubUcan" 
for the new pohtical party then being 
organized. — E. H. 

Col. George Boyd. Portable 
mahogany desk used by him when 
Indian agent at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 
in 1832. Before coming to Wisconsin 
Colonel Boyd served the nation on 
several important foreign commissions. 
In 1814 he was intrusted with private 
dispatches to the peace commissioners 
a,t Ghent. He again went to Europe 
in 1816, to purchase arms and likewise 
material for the Capitol and White 
House at Washington. His first ap- 
pointment as Indian agent came in 1818 
when he was stationed at Mackinac. — 
M. H. R. 

Rev. Alfred Brunson, D. D. Snow- 
shoes presented to this pioneer mission- 
ary by Wisconsin Chippewa Indians, 
in 1843. Mr. Brunson came to Prairie 
du Chien in 1835, and was the first 
Methodist preacher to go north of the 
Wisconsin River. On account of ill 
health he relinquished the ministry in 
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1839. In 1840 he was elected to the 
territorial legislature and in 1842 was 
appointed Indian agent at La Pointe. 
Mr. Brunson later returned to the 
ministry.—/. H, R., E. H., P. 

Gen. George E. Bryant. Muffler 
worn by him in 1873 and articles 
from his home at Madison. He was 
captain of the Madison Guards in 1860, 
the first company to offer its services 
to the government at the beginning of 
the Civil War. This company served 
five months in the * First Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry, and was then 
mustered out of service. Captain 
Bryant was afterward commissioned 
colonel of the Twelfth Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry and served through 
nearly the entire war. Afterwards he 
held many public offices including that 
of quartermaster-general of the State 
(1877).— M. H. R., N. H. 

The Buffalo. Peace pipe "pre- 
sented by Tay-che-gwi-au-nee for his 
father, the Buffalo, a principal Chippewa 
chief, on the south shore of Lake 
Superior, in council at Fort Winnebago, 
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Feb. 12, 1844." On the bowl is carved 
the old chief's personal totem, the 
buffalo.—/. H, R. 

Satterlee Clark. Copy of the 
Works of Horace, formerly in his library 
at Horicon. Clark came to Wisconsin in 
1828; was a sutler at Fort Winnebago, 
1834-43; served two years in the State 
assembly and twelve in the State 
senate. He was one of those who con- 
ducted Yellow Thunder and other 
Winnebago chiefs on a visit to Washing- 
ton in 1837. During this visit the 
treaty was signed by which the Winne- 
bago ceded to the government the last 
of their lands in Wisconsin. — E. H., P. 

Joseph Clauder. Conducting stick 
used by the famous band conductor of 
Milwaukee (1853-1913). Copies of first 
editions of music composed by him. — N. 
H., I. R., P. 

Capt. Thomas J. Cram. Section of 
trunk of a pine tree from the shore of 
Trout Lake, in Vilas County, bearing a 
blaze upon which appears the name of 
Captain Cram, the United States 
engineer who surveyed the Wisconsin- 
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Michigan boundary, and of his assistant, 
Douglas Houghton, name-giver for 
Houghton, Michigan. Dated, Aug. 11, 
1841.— £. H. 

Old Grey-headed Decorah. (Sha- 
chip-ka-ka). A prominent Winnebago 
chief. Pipe presented by him to Za- 
chary Taylor, later president of the 
United States. He fought for the British 
under General Proctor at Sandusky 
(Aug. 2, 1813), and at the battle of 
the Thames (Oct. 5, 1813). After 
1793 he moved his village from the shore 
of Lake Puckaway to a point on the Wis- 
consin River, near Portage. He gave 
assurance to General Atkinson during 
the Winnebago War scare, in 1827, of the 
peaceable intentions of his people. He 
died in 1836, and was buried at Peten 
Well, in Caledonia Township, Columbia 
County. See also Zachary Taylor. — /. 
H. R. 

Chief Spoon Decorah. Scalp-lock 
ornament, war club and clan war bundle 
formerly in possession of this noted Win- 
nebago chief. — /. H. R. 

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Gov. Nelson Dewey. Gold pen used 
by him, his diary, and a Dutch clock 
from his home in Cassville. He was the 
first governor of Wisconsin after it be- 
canle a state, serving from 1848-1852. — 
E. H., I. R. 

Gov. Henry Dodge. Ghapeau and 
uniform coat worn by him while com- 
manding a regiment of United States 
dragoons against the Indian tribes at the 
headwaters of the Platte and Arkansas 
rivers in 1814-15. Rustic chair owned 
and used by him. He came to Wisconsin 
in 1827; took a prominent part in sub- 
duing the Winnebago uprising of that 
year, and in the Black Hawk War in 
1832; was the first territorial gov- 
ernor of Wisconsin, 1836-41; delegate to 
Congress, 1841-45; again territorial gov- 
ernor, 1845-48; and United States sena- 
tor, 1848-57. Died at Burlington, Iowa, 
June 19, 1867.— M. H. R., E. H., P. 

Sen. J. R. Doolittle. Gold-headed 
cane presented to him at the Soldiers' 
and Sailors' Fair held at Washington, 
D. C., July 10, 1866. He served as fed- 

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eral senator from Wisconsin from 1857 
to 1861, and from 1863 to 1867.— £". H. 

Gov. James D. Doty. Council pipe 
presented to him by Col. Henry Leaven- 
worth at Camp Cold Water, an encamp- 
ment of the Fifth United States Infan- 
try on the Mississippi River, above the 
mouth of the St. Peters River, on July 
20, 1820. Doty was accompanying an ex- 
pedition under Gov. Lewis Cass, in the 
capacity of official secretary. They were 
engaged in collecting information con- 
cerning the Indians of Wisconsin, Min- 
nesota, and Michigan. Col. Leaven- 
worth was then beginning the erection 
of Fort Snelling. The pipe was presented 
to him during a council with the Chippe- 
wa Indians. Notice of his election as 
delegate to Congress by the territorial 
convention of Aug. 29, 1838. Doty 
served as governor of Wisconsin Terri- 
tory, 1841-44.—/. H. R., E. H., N. 
H., P. 

Hercules L. Dousman. Sewing ma- 
chine from his home in Prairie du Chien. 
Mr. Dousman came to Prairie du Chien 
as agent of the American Fur Company 

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in 1826. He was a man of large business 
ability and aided in the transformation 
of Wisconsin from a fur-trading to a 
modern community. — E. H., P. 

Jean Baptiste l'Ecuyer. Wooden 
cross made and used by this fur trader 
at Portage, Wisconsin, as early as 1800. 
—E.H. 

Gen. Cassius Fairchild. Coat worn 
when colonel of the Sixteenth Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry, and shako worn as 
a member of the "Governor's Guard." 
Cassius Fairchild was the second son of 
Jairus C. Fairchild, the first treasurer of 
the state of Wisconsin. He was an en- 
thusiastic member of the "Governor's 
Guard," the company formed in Madi- 
son before the outbreak of the war. In 
1861 he entered the military service as 
major of the Sixteenth Wisconsin Vol- 
unteer Infantry, and shared in Sher- 
man's "march to the sea" as colonel of 
his regiment.— M. H. R., P. 

Gen. Lucius Fairchild. Gray coat 
worn when captain of Co. K, First Wis- 
consin Volunteers. Vest cut from him 
when wounded at Gettysburg. In con- 

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sequence of his injuries he lost his arm. 
Various articles of uniform and equip- 
ment used during the Civil War. Uni- 
form including chapeau, sword, sash, 
belt, and two pairs of spurs worn when 
General Fairchild was minister to Spain 
in 1880. General Fairchild enlisted with 
the "Governor's Guard," later Co. K, 
First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
after the surrender of Fort Sumter and 
became its captain. In 1861 he was ap- 
pointed captain of the Sixteenth Wis- 
consin Volunteer Infantry. Later he 
was heutenant-colonel and colonel of the 
Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 
In the fall of 1863 he was elected secre- 
tary of state. From 1866-72, he served 
the State as governor. Later he held 
diplomatic positions as consul at Liver- 
pool, 1872, consul-general at Paris, 1875, 
and minister to Spain, 1880. — M. H. /?., 
A^. //., P. 

Gov. Leonard Farwell. Broadside 
issued during his campaign for the gov- 
ernorship in 1871. Wedding announce- 
ment card.— £■. H., I. /?., P. 



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Alexander P. Field. Desk used by 
him when secretary of Wisconsin Terri- 
tory, 1841-43.— £. H. 

Matthew G. Fitch. Powderhorn, 
charger, and shotpouch worn by him 
while a Ueutenant in Col. Henry Dodge's 
command of Wisconsin rangers during 
the Black Hawk War, 1832.— M. H. R, 

Jacob Frank. — Iron ladle used for 
smelting lead in his fur-trade warehouse 
at Green Bay. — E. H. 

AuGUSTiN Grignon. Silver snuffbox, 
ivory-headed cane, powderhorn and 
charger, and an epaulette (with paper 
case) worn by him in the British service 
in Wisconsin, in the War of 1812. 
Collection of articles including weapons, 
game traps, articles of dress, weighing 
scales, and various goods employed in 
the Indian trade at the old Grignon- 
Porlier trading post at Butte des Morts, 
in Winnebago County. Grignon was a 
prominent fur trader and a grandson 
of Charles de Langlade. He was born 
at Green Bay, June 27, 1780. His 
narrative of "Seventy-two Years' Recol- 
lections of Wisconsin" is published in 
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Wisconsin Historical Collections, III. 
He died in I860.— M. H. /?., E. H., 
I. H. R., P. 

Louis Grignon. Military coat and 
vest worn by him in the British service 
during the attack on Fort Shelby, 
Prairie du Chien, July 17, 1814.— 
M. H. R. 

Pierre Bernard Grignon. Saddle- 
bags in which as United States mail 
contractor, in 1832, he carried the mail 
between Green Bay and Chicago. — /. R. 

William S. Hamilton. Two sleigh 
bells from a string presented by the 
wife of Alexander Hamilton to her son 
Col. William S. Hamilton, of Wiota, 
in 1839.— £. H. 

Count Agoston Haraszthy. Needle 
cushion from hunting lodge erected by 
this picturesque pioneer, at Roxbury, 
Wisconsin. Early in the spring of 1840 
Count Haraszthy set out from Hungary 
for America. On shipboard he selected 
Wisconsin as his future home. He 
arrived at the beautiful spot on the 
Wisconsin River w^here is now Prairie 
du Sac about July, 1840. He was 

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engaged in various enterprises there 
until 1848 when he caught the gold 
fever and went to California. By 1868 
California became too settled a com- 
munity for this adventurer and he 
moved on to Nicaragua where he 
was drowned in 1869. — A^. H. 

Gen. Henry Harnden. Sword, re- 
volvers, saddle, and saddle-bag used by 
him while colonel of the First Wisconsin 
Cavalry, when participating in the 
capture of Jefferson Davis, president of 
the Confederacy, near Irwinsville, Geor- 
gia, May 10, 1865. He retired at the 
close of the war with the brevet of 
brigadier-general. — M. H. R., P. 

Mark R. Harrison. Cigar case, 
dated 1873, formerly the property of 
this early Wisconsin artist. Mr. Har- 
rison painted the portraits of many of 
our pioneer Wisconsin statesmen and 
examples of his work will be found in 
the Museum.— A^. //., E, if., P. 

Gov. Louis P. Harvey. Silver 

pocket-knife found in his clothes after 

his accidental drowning at Pittsburg 

Landing, April 19, 1862. Sword used 

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by his great-grandfather, Capt. Thomas 
Harvey, in the Revolutionary War. — 
M. H. R. 

Mortimer M. Jackson. Flag dis- 
played in his ofTice when consul at 
Halifax, 1861-80. He received the ap- 
pointment from Abraham Lincoln. Mr. 
Jackson was a justice of the Supreme 
Court of Wisconsin, 1848-53.— M. H. R. 

Solomon Juneau. Watch which is 
said to have belonged to this early fur 
trader. Juneau was the founder and 
first mayor of the city of Milwaukee. — 
N. H., E. H., P. 

Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper. Bible 
mark used by him; sermon book pre- 
sented to him at Philadelphia, June 1, 
1831, and passes issued to him by 
Wisconsin stage, steamboat, and rail- 
road lines during the years 1858-64. 
He was the pioneer bishop of the 
Protestant Episcopal church in the 
Northwest.— E. i/., N. H., P. 

E. W. Keyes. Glass inkwell, formerly 

the property of Judge Keyes, who was 

commonly known as "Boss" Keyes. 

For many years he was chairman of the 

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Republican State Central Committee 
and throughout his whole life was closely 
connected with the fortunes of the 
Republican party in this state. — E. H., 
S. H., P. 

Charles de Langlade. Pair of 
silver-mounted duelling pistols carried 
by him, his silver seal, and a leather 
quillwork ornamented pouch used by 
him for carrying his fur-trade papers. 
He was the son of Sieur Augustin de 
Langlade, who married at Mackinac the 
sister of Nis-so-wa-quet, head chief of 
the Ottawa. About 1763 father and son 
removed to Green Bay, where they 
became the principal proprietors of the 
soil. Charles de Langlade led the 
Wisconsin Indians in several of the 
many sanguinary conflicts of the French 
and Indian War, from Braddock's de- 
feat (in 1755), to the final Enghsh con- 
quest of Canada. In the Revolutionary 
War he fought on the British side. He 
died at Green Bay in January, 1800. — 
E. H. (See oil painting of Langlade at 
Braddock's Defeat, in S. H.) 



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Increase A. Lapham. Vasculum and 
plant press used by him in collecting 
and pressing (1836-40) his herbarium of 
between 20,000 and 30,000 plants now 
in the University of Wisconsin. Copy of 
his Supplement to Catalogue of Plants, 
printed in Milwaukee, November, 1840. 
Woodcuts employed in illustrating a 
botanical article written by him previous 
to 1870. Case containing his draughting 
instruments. Two models of Wisconsin 
Indian earthworks prepared by him for 
the Centennial Exposition at Philadel- 
phia in 1876. He settled in Milwaukee 
in 1836. He was one of the organizers of 
the State Historical Society and for 
twenty-two years either its president or 
one of its vice-presidents. He served as 
State geologist, 1873-75, and was the 
"father" of the United States Weather 
Bureau. He ranked among the most dis- 
tinguished antiquarians and naturalists 
of his time, and was the most prominent 
of the early scientific investigators in 
Wisconsin. He died at Oconomowoc, 
Sept. 14, 1875.— £. H., I. H. R., N. 
H.,P. 

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Little Soldier. Pipe formerly be- 
longing to him. He is better known as 
"Dandy." He was a son of the Winne- 
bago chief, Black Wolf, and a cousin of 
Four Legs. His village is reported as 
being located in 1836 on Baraboo River, 
above the present city of Baraboo. — 
/. H. R. 

Morgan L. Martin. Beaver hat and 
plush hat worn by him. He came to 
Green Bay in 1827, was a member of the 
Michigan legislative council, 1831-35; 
delegate to Congress, 1845; member of 
the Wisconsin legislative council, 1845- 
47; president of the second constitu- 
tional convention, 1848; member of the 
assembly, 1855; of the senate, 1858-59; 
paymaster in the United States army, 
1861-65; Indian agent, 1866-69; and 
again a member of the State assembly 
in 1873; and then judge of Brown 
County until his death, Dec. 10, 1887. — 
A^. //., P. 

Simeon Mills. Percussion-lock pis- 
tol, and a collection of American and for- 
eign gold, silver, and copper coins as- 
sembled by him. He came to Wisconsin 



July 2, 1836, and was one of the first 
settlers of Madison (June 10, 1837). He 
was clerk of the territorial supreme 
court, and a member of the first State 
senate in 1848; was paymaster-general of 
the State troops during the earlier years 
of the Civil War. He was long one of the 
vice-presidents of the State Historical 
Society.— £. H., S. H., P. 

Na-na-on-ge-be (Dressing Bird). 
War drum used by the first chief of the 
Lac Courte Oreille band of Wisconsin 
Ojibwa Indians. — /. H. R, 

Na-ya-to-shingd (He-who-lays-by- 
himself). War club owned by him when 
chief of the Chippewa Indian village at 
Manitowoc. He died in 1838, at the al- 
leged age of over 100 years. — /. H. R. 

Henry C. Payne. Gold-bound oak 
gavel with w^hich, as chairman, he called 
to order the National Republican Con- 
vention at Chicago, 1904. Brown 
leather portfolio used by him when post- 
master-general, at meetings of the cabi- 
net of President Roosevelt. His collec- 
tion of badges, worn by himself and oth- 
ers in the Republican national conven- 
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tions at Minneapolis (1892), St. Louis 
(1896), Philadelphia (1900), and Chi- 
cago (1904).— £. H., I. R. 

Mrs. Eben (Roseline) Peck. Violin 
and watch of the first white woman set- 
tler of Madison, April 15, 1837. Many 
of the early legislators lived at Mrs. 
Peck's home and danced to the strains 
of her violin.— £■. H., N. H., P. 

Nicolas Perrot. Ostensorium (or 
soleil) presented by him to St. Francis 
Xavier mission at De Pere, in 1686. He 
was then commandant of the French in 
the West. Pike and various iron imple- 
ments from the site of his fort (1684-85) 
at the "wintering bluff" near Trempea- 
leau.— 5. H., E. H. 

Horace Rublee. Diary kept at 
Madison about 1864 by this pioneer 
journalist and politician. Mr. Rublee 
first engaged in journalism as a legis- 
lative reporter for the Madison Daily 
Argus in 1852 and 1853. He was 
a partner with David Atwood in the 
Wisconsin State Journal from 1854-69, 
and editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel 
from 1882-96. A strong supporter of 

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the Republican party, he held the 
chairmanship of the Republican State 
Central Committee from 1859-69.^ — 
E. H., S. H., P, 

Surg. -Gen. Nicholas Senn. Ob- 
stetrical instruments used by him when 
beginning his career as a country doctor 
at Elmore, Fond du Lac County, in 
1867. Favorite scalpel used by this 
famous surgeon in his clinic at Rush 
Medical College, Chicago. Copy of a 
bronze medal presented to him in honor 
of his sixtieth birthday by the medical 
profession of the country. During the 
Spanish-American War he was ap- 
pointed surgeon-general of the army 
by President McKinley. — N. H. 

Christopher Latham Sholes. Sam- 
ples of the porcelain keys used on one of 
the earliest models of the typewriter (of 
which he was the inventor) made at 
Milwaukee in the years 1866-67. An 
earlier model had brass keys, and a 
keyboard in which the keys were all on 
one level. In later models the keys were 
arranged in four banks. In 1873 his in- 

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vention passed into the hands of the 
Remingtons, for manufacture. Sholes 
& GHdden typewriter, manufactured 
by C. Remington & Sons, lUon, New 
York, in 1878.— E. H,, S. H. 

Gen. John C. Starkweather. 
Sword given to him by the non-commis- 
sioned officers and privates of the Mil- 
waukee Light Guard, Sept. 2, 1858. 
Uniform coat and sash worn by him as 
commander of the Light Guard. Silver 
pitcher and two goblets presented to him 
by his staff officers of the Ninth and 
Tenth Indiana Cavalry and Seventh 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and citizens of 
Pulaski, Tennessee, Aug. 7, 1864. Silver 
butter dish presented by freedmen for his 
activity in suppressing guerrilla war- 
fare, Nov. 17, 1864. Beaded dance bag 
presented to him by Menominee Indians. 
He was colonel of the First Wisconsin 
Regiment, 1861-63. On July 17, 1863, 
he was promoted to brigadier-general. — 
M. H, K, L H. R., P. 

Alexander Stow. Powderhorn used 
by him. He came to Wisconsin in 1845; 
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was elected judge of the Fourth circuit 
and chief -justice of the supreme court, 
serving from Aug., 1848, to Jan., 1851. 
Died at Milwaukee, Sept. 14, 1854.— 
E. H., N. H., P. 

James J. Strang. Bolt plate, 
probably from a door of his Beaver 
Island "castle." Strang, an eccentric 
young lawyer of Burlington, Racine 
County, embraced Mormonism. His 
subsequent career as elder, revelator, 
prophet, seer, and finally as "king," 
is one of the strange episodes of western 
history. In 1845 he and his followers 
began the erection of the Mormon 
city of Voree, on the White River, in 
Walworth County. In 1847 he removed 
with his followers to Beaver Island, in 
Lake Michigan. — E. H. 

Congressman John Fox Potter. 
Bowie knife purchased by him for use 
in the proposed duel with Roger A. 
Pryor, in 1860. Derringer carried by 
him in 1860. Bowie knife captured from 
the Louisiana "Tigers" at Norfolk, 
Virginia, and presented to "Bowie 
Knife" Potter, May 31, 1862, by 
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Brigadier-General Viele, U. S. A., as 
an appropriate "memorial of a chival- 
rous incident." Potter was member of 
Congress from the First Wisconsin Dis- 
trict, 1857-63.— M« H. R, 

Dr. Walter L. Rankin. Catalogue 
of Carroll College, Waukesha, Wiscon- 
sin (1867-68). This was the first 
catalogue issued by President Rankin. — 
E. H. 

Joseph Rolette. Hand-made spikes 
(forged at a blacksmith shop on the 
spot) from the frame of the first grist- 
mill in southwestern Wisconsin, built 
for Rolette by Charles Hickox at Dodge- 
ville. The establishment was known as 
the Hickox mill. Rolette was an early 
settler and fur trader of Prairie du 
Chien.— £. H. 

Maj. John H. Rountree. Sword 
used by him in the Black Hawk War. 
Major Rountree came to Wisconsin and 
settled at Platteville in 1827. He 
shared in the troubles of the outbreak 
of the W^innebago War, and served as 
captain during the Black Hawk War. 
From 1838-46 he was in the territorial 
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council. He served in the second 
constitutional convention, in the State 
assembly in 1863, and in the senate in 
1865.— M. H. R., N. H., P. 

Moses M. Strong. Waterproof cloak 
worn by him, his leather-bound trunk, 
leather saddle pouch, and a collection of 
old-fashioned household utensils from 
his home at Mineral Point. He settled 
at Mineral Point in 1836; was United 
States attorney for Wisconsin Territory, 
1838-40; elected to the territorial coun- 
cil, 1842, and reelected for four years; 
member of the constitutional conven- 
tion; member and speaker of the assem- 
bly, 1850, and reelected to the assembly 
in 1853; first president of the Milwaukee 
& La Crosse Railroad Company. Au- 
thor of Territorial History of Wisconsin, 
pubHshed in 1885.— iV. H., P. 

Gov. William R. Taylor. Gourd 
vessel presented to him when elected 
"Granger" governor of Wisconsin, in 
1873.— E. H., P. 

Dr. Reuben G. Thwaites. Corn- 
planter medal for Iroquois research 
awarded to him by the Cayuga County 
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Historical Society. Dr. Thwaites was 
appointed secretary of the State His- 
torical Society of Wisconsin in 1887 
and held that position until his death 
in 1913. During that period of time he 
made many valuable contributions to 
historical research. — /. H. R., P. 

Gov. William H. Upham. Pen with 
which he signed the bill making appro- 
priations for the new building of the 
State Historical Society. He was gover- 
nor of Wisconsin from 1895-97. — /. R. 

Daniel Whitney. Ladles, 56-pound 
weight, and other relics of the shot 
tower erected by him at Helena, on the 
Wisconsin River, in Iowa County, 1831- 
33. He was a pioneer merchant and 
lumberman who came to Green Bay 
in 1819.— M. H. i?., P. 

Asaph Whittlesey. Pair of snow- 
shoes used by him when walking from 
Ashland, on Lake Superior, to Madison, 
in the year 1860, to represent his district 
in the State assembly. — E. H. 

Eleazar Williams. Copper tea- 
kettle used in his home at Little Chute, 
Outagamie County. Neckband worn 
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by him while missionary to the Gneida 
Indians. He was the reputed son of a 
woman of the St. Regis band of Mohawk 
Indians, being born about 1792; became 
an Episcopal missionary to the Oneida 
of New York, and came to Wisconsin 
in 1821 as agent of certain tribes of 
New York Indians who desired to 
settle in the valley of the lower Fox 
River. About 1850 he won notoriety 
by claiming to be the son of the executed 
Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoi- 
nette, and thus heir to the French 
throne. Many believed his assertions, 
while others who knew the missionary 
well stamped him as, an impostor. He 
died at Little Kaukauna, Aua. 28, 1857. 
—N. i/., E. H., I. H. i?., P. 

National and Foreign Celebrities 

Emilio Aguinaldo Y Famy. Mack- 
intosh taken from the person of the 
Philippine leader, at the time of his 
capture, March 23, 1901, in the town 
of Palanan, Province of Isabella. "Agui- 
naldo had it rolled and on him in the 
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same manner that our soldiers carry 
their blanket rolls, as if he had hurriedly 
picked it up when the idea of escape 
came to him after the fight began." — 
/. R. 

Maj.-Gen. N. p. Banks. Note 
written by General Banks to Colonel 
Ruggles on the day preceding the battle 
of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Aug. 8, 
1862.— M. H. R. 

John Bell. John Bell and Edward 
Everett Peace party campaign medal, 
1860.—/. R. 

Black Kettle. Pipe formerly the 
property of this famous Cheyenne chief 
and warrior, whose village on Sand 
Creek, Colorado, was attacked and 
destroyed in 1864 by a force of militia, 
and a large number of innocent men, 
women, and children massacred. Black 
Kettle was later killed at his village on 
the Washita in an attack by United 
States troops under Gen. P. H. Sheridan. 
— /. H. R. 

James G. Blaine. Blaine and Logan 
ballots. Campaign medals and badges. 
—E. i/., /. R. 

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Daniel Boone. Powderhorn, bear- 
ing the initials of his brother, Israel 
Boone, from whom he received it. A 
silver coat button bearing the monogram 
*'D. B." The bake kettle used by him 
while exploring the Kentucky wilderness 
(1759-95). He presented this kettle 
as a keepsake to his friend and fellow- 
frontiersman, Gen. Simon Kenton. 
There is also a plaster cast of Boone's 
skull, made at Frankfort, Kentucky, 
in 1845.— M. H. R., I, H. R. 

Gapt. Joseph Brant (Thayen- 
danegea). Ribbon with silver brooches 
worn by this famous Mohaw^k Indian 
chief. Brant was an educated Indian 
who at the time of the Revolutionary 
War assisted his friends the English 
by arousing the Six Nations against the 
colonial forces. He took part in the 
battle of Oriskany with success but the 
results of the battle of Ghenung changed 
Brant from the leader of a powerful 
confederacy to the chieftain of a broken 
clan. At the close of the war he retired 
to Ganada, w^here he long continued a 
power in the councils of the Indians 
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along the Canadian-American frontier. 
—E. H. 

John C. Breckenridge. Vice- 
presidential ballot for, used in Dane 
County, Wisconsin, 1856. — E. H. 

John Brown. Wrought-iron firedogs 
from the birthplace of the famous anti- 
slavery agitator at Torrington, Connec- 
ticut. One of the pikes provided by him 
for the arming of negroes at Harper's 
Ferry, Virginia, October, 1859. Pre- 
sented by Brown's lieutenant, John E. 
Cook, to Sen. D. W. Voorhees, of 
Indiana. Piece of puncheon floor and 
pieces of siding from his house at 
Osawatomie. Saber supposed, to have 
been carried in the Revolutionary War 
by Capt. John Brown, grandfather of 
John Brown.— Af. H. R. 

President James Buchanan. Presi- 
dential ballot for, used in Dane County, 
Wisconsin, in 1856. — E. H. 

Ole Bull. Wedding invitation, 
1870, and program of grand farewell 
concert, Milwaukee, June 30, 1857, 
of the famous violinist. — E. H. 

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Alice Gary. Piece of old-fashioned 
silk from the dress of the famous 
authoress. — /. R. 

President Grover Gleveland. 
Porcelain plate frorn his White House 
dinner set. Presented to the Museum 
by President Roosevelt. Gleveland and 
Hendricks ballots used in Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin.— A. /?., E. H. 

William F. Gody (Buffalo Bill). 
Badge complimentary to the famous 
scout given to him by his lifelong friend, 
Frank Powell (White Beaver), at La 
Grosse, Dec. 2, 1886.— M. H. R. 

Ghristopher Golumbus. Piece of 
cedar from his home in Madeira. Re- 
ceived from Henry Garacciola of Port 
of Spain, Trinidad. — /. R. 

Father Joseph Damien. Grucifix, 
rosary, holy water shell, medical book, 
carpenter's rule and other articles used 
by him in the leper colony at Kalawao, 
Molokai, Hawaiian Islands. Father Da- 
mien was born in 1841 at Louvain, 
Belgium. Being educated as a Gatho- 
lic priest, he was sent to the South 
Seas as a missionary in 1873. Settling 

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on the island of Molokai, he devoted the 
remainder of his Ufe to the lepers. He 
himself died of leprosy in 1889. His suc- 
cessor is Brother Joseph Button, a for- 
mer resident of Wisconsin. — E. H. 

Jefferson Davis. Negro slave whip 
obtained by a Wisconsin soldier from 
his plantation at Grand Gulf, near 
Vicksburg, Mississippi. Jefferson Davis 
ballot. "Diddy box" made from furni- 
ture in the house of Jefferson Davis by 
William Nelson and used by him while 
ship's corporal on the U. S. S., "Caron- 
delet," during the Civil War. He came 
to Wisconsin in 1828 as a lieutenant in 
the First United States Infantry, being 
stationed at Fort Crawford, Fort Win- 
nebago, and elsewhere. He participated 
in the Black Hawk War in 1832, and 
left the State in 1833.— M. H. R, 

Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas and 
Johnson campaign badge, 1860. — E. H. 

Col. Ephraim E. Ellsworth. Pencil 
portrait sketch of himself made in 1858, 
when he was visiting Madison, and pre- 
sented by him to N. B. Van Slyke. When 
at Alexandria, Virginia, with his regi- 

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ment, on May 24, 1861, this promising 
young soldier ascended to the roof of a 
hotel and tore down a Confederate flag. 
On his way downstairs he w^as shot and 
killed by the proprietor of the hotel, 
who was himself immediately killed by 
one of Ellsworth's men. — M. H. R. 

Empress Eugenie (Marie-Eugenie- 
Ignace- Augustine de Montijo). Brussels 
needlepoint and bobjDin-lace scarf worn 
by her. Empress Eugenie was the wife 
of Napoleon III of France. — A. R. 

Edward Everett. — John Bell and 
Edward Everett Peace party campaign 
medals, 1860.—/. R. 

Benjamin Franklin. Home-made 
friction electrical machine supposed to 
have been constructed under his per- 
sonal direction. — 5. H. 

President Ulysses S. Grant. One 
of the chairs used at meetings of his 
cabinet; it was purchased during his first 
term as president and was in use in the 
White House until 1902, when new fur- 
niture was purchased. Presented by 
President Roosevelt to Henry C. Payne, 
Two porcelain plates from the White 

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House dinner set of President Grant. 
Pass given by him to Dayton Locke, 
April 19, 1865. Officer's commission 
signed by him, badges, etc. — E. H., A. 
R., M. H. R. 

President Benjamin Harrison. Por- 
celain plate from his White House din- 
ner set. Presented by President Roose- 
velt. RepubUcan ballot of the Harrison- 
Morton campaign, Wisconsin, 1888. In- 
augural ball program, Mar. 4, 1889. — 
A. i?., E, H. 

William H. Harrison. Reprint of a 
Harrison Tippecanoe Club campaign 
letter, medals, etc. — E. H. 

President Rutherford B. Hayes. 
Two porcelain plates from his White 
House dinner set. Presented by Presi- 
dent Roosevelt.— A. R. 

Brig. -Gen. Nicholas Herkimer. 
Field glass used by him at the battle of 
Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1777.— M. H. R. 

Stephen Hopkins. Two Lowestoft- 
ware mugs formerly used by him. He 
was governor of Rhode Island (1755- 
68), the first chancellor of Brown Uni- 
versity, a signer of the Declaration of 

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Independence (1776), and a member of 
the Continental Congress. — N. H. 

Gen. Sam Houston. Small heart cut 
by General Houston from a piece of pine 
wood and presented by him to Mrs. 
Susan J. Spiller, while a guest at her 
home at Danville, Texas, in 1852. In 
1836 Houston secured the independence 
of Texas by conquest from Mexico, and 
was elected president of the Texan 
repubhc, which in 1845 was admitted 
into the Union.— M. H. R. 

Captain Jack (Kintpuash). Iron 
staple said to have been one of a number 
used in securing this chief, the leader of 
the Modoc War of 1872-73, when a pris- 
oner at Fort Klamath, Oregon. He and 
five other leaders were hanged in Octo- 
ber, 1873, for treacherously assassinating 
the peace commissioners who had been 
sent to treat with the Modoc renegades. 
— M. H. R. 

Col. C. R. Jennison ("Jayhawker"). 
Confederate flag of domestic make, cap- 
tured by him when in command of the 
First Kansas Cavalry, Nov. 26, 186L 
Accompanying the flag is a note from 
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Jennison, written on the back of one of 
his famous bloodthirsty proclamations. 
Received from Gen. James Bintliff. — 
M. H. R. 

Andrew Johnson. Card with auto- 
graph of President Andrew Johnson. — 
M. H. R. 

John Paul Jones. Button from the 
coat of this celebrated naval commander 
of the war of the Revolution. — M. H. R. 

Gen. Robert E. Lee. Pike, one of 
a lot found in Richmond, Virginia, after 
the surrender. Made by order of 
General Lee for use in the trenches 
because of the scarcity of ammunition. 
— M. H. R. 

President Abraham Lincoln. 
Autograph card dated July 27, 1863, 
requesting Secretary of War Stanton to 
have an interview with Ex-Gov. N. G. 
Ordway of New Hampshire. Plate from 
the dinner set in use at the White House 
during his administration. Photograph 
of his home in Springfield, in 1844. 
Playbill of Ford's Theater, for April 14, 
1865, the night when President Lincoln 
was assassinated. Pass bearing his sig- 
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nature, issued to Mrs. J. R. Reid and 
daughter, Oct. 21, 1864. Lincoln and 
Hamlin presidential election ticket. 
Cap-band worn by member of the Ran- 
dolph (Dodge County) Wide Awake 
Club, Lincoln campaign, 1860. Piece 
of wall paper from his home at Spring- 
field, Illinois.— M. H. R., A, R.,I.R.,P. 

Gen. George B. McClellan. Demo- 
cratic presidential ballot of 1864. — E. H. 

Father Jacques Marquette. Bra- 
cony's plaster sketch of Father Mar- 
quette. Stone from tower of the ca- 
thedral at Laon, his birthplace. — 5. //., 
I. R. 

Maximilian Joseph (Maximihan I). 
Silver medal given by him to Joseph 
Pistorius for bravery in the wars of 
Napoleon, 1800. Maximihan (1756- 
1825), king of Bavaria, was the most 
faithful of Napoleon's German allies. — 
M. H. R. 

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. 
Short cane made from oak plank of the 
flagship, "Lawrence." Piece of oak 
planking from hull of his brig, "Niaga- 

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ra." Perry medals, etc.— M. H. /?., S. 
H., P. 

Capt. Simeon Sampson. Small 
leather trunk in which were kept the 
papers of Captain Sampson, the first 
naval commander appointed in the con- 
tinental service by the provincial con- 
gress of Massachusetts, at the out- 
break of the Revolutionary War. Mirror 
purchased by him in France during this 
period.— M. H. R., C. K. 

Gen. Philip Schuyler. Ivory stilet- 
to once the property of Margaret 
Schuyler, daughter of this general of the 
Revolutionary War. She escaped a 
tomahawk blow when the Schuyler 
mansion was attacked by Indians 
aroused by the British, Aug. 7, 1781. — 
A^. H. 

William Shakespeare. Goblet said 
to have been carved from wood of, 
mulberry tree planted by him. — A. R. 

Roger Sherman. Chair, being a 
part of the parlor furniture of his home 
at New Milford, Connecticut. He was 
one of the members of the committee 
appointed by the Continental Congress 
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in 1776 to draft the Declaration of 
Independence. — E. H. 

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. 
Message in pencil, which he caused to be 
signalled to Admiral Dahlgren, asking 
the cooperation of his fleet in the cap- 
ture of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee 
River, near Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 13, 
1864. Semaphore flag with which it 
was signalled by Lieut. William Ware. — 
M. H. R. 

Sitting Bull. War club presented 
by this noted Sioux chief to a Catholic 
priest, previous to the year 1884, with 
the information that it had been used 
in the Custer massacre on the Little 
Bighorn, June 25, 1876.—/. H. R. 

President Zachary Taylor. Pipe 
presented to him when commandant 
(1829-36) at Fort Crawford (Prairie du 
Chien) by the noted Wisconsin Winne- 
bago chief Dekaury (Sha-chip-ka-ka), 
also known as Old Grey-headed Deco- 
rah. White War Eagle, and by other 
names.—/. H. /?., E. H., P. 

Tecumseh. Pair of epaulettes worn 
by this great Shawnee chief in the W^ar 
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of 1812. He was killed by the Ameri- 
cans at the battle of the Thames, 
Canada, on Oct. 5, 1813.— M. H. R. 

Gen. Tom Thumb (C. T. Stratton). 
Program of entertainment and calling 
card of this famous dwarf. Under the 
management of P. T. Barnum he made 
a tour of the world in 1869.—/. R. 

George Washington. Telescope 
used by him. It was found on one of the 
British ships captured by Commodore 
John Barry during the war of the 
Revolution, and by him presented to 
General Washington. Facsimile of med- 
al issued to Washington to commemo- 
rate the evacuation of Boston by the 
British, Mar. 17, 1776.— M. H. R., S. 
H., P. 

Daniel Webster. Carriage pur- 
chased in London, in 1808, by Stephen 
White of Boston, and used by him for 
several years. It then passed into the 
hands of the great American statesman. 
Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Silas 
WVight, Charlotte Cushman, Dean Rich- 
mond, Erastus Corning, and many 
other notables have ridden in it. It is 
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an admirable specimen of the better 
class of family carriages in use in Eng- 
land and America a century ago. — E. H. 



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